Moog Music Inc.
Not an instrument. This is the Buffalo company name at the bottom of the service manuals, and the archive treats it that way.
Overview
"Moog Music Inc." is a manufacturer string, not a product, so the archive files it that way. There is no model number, no serial range and no front panel to describe. The documentation does establish an address. The service literature in the PDF index - a Model 343 A service manual and a Prodigy technical service manual - both carry the Moog Music Inc. name at 2500 Walden Avenue, Buffalo, New York. A European arm is listed at Washaven Zuid Zijde 48, 3088 HJ, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The 343 A manual bears a 1982 copyright. The Prodigy manual carries a 1979 copyright and credits "Another Quality Product from Norlin," with Norlin Music Instruments Limited in Scarborough, Ontario and Norlin Music Services B.V. in Rotterdam named alongside.
The Norlin connection is the interesting part of the paper trail. The patent record in the index shows the corporate name changing hands around the same designs. A signal generator patent for an electronic musical instrument, employing a variable rate integrator, was filed June 14, 1974 by inventor David A. Luce and assigned to Moog Music, Inc. of Williamsville, New York. A later patent for a monophonic touch sensitive keyboard, filed February 28, 1978 by Robert A. Moog, is assigned to Norlin Music, Inc. of Lincolnwood, Illinois. Same engineer's name on the second filing, different assignee. The paperwork shows which entity owned the work at which point.
The period press in the index is thin on corporate history and thick on the instruments. A 1973 Moog Music copyright notice turns up on a distributor advertisement in Studio Sound (November 1973, p.77). It is a full-page "adventure in sound" placement that ran through Europe's largest musical instrument distributor at the time. Two decades later, Mix (May 1998, p.14) ran a "MOOG LAWSUIT" item in its World Audio News column naming Robert Moog alongside a list of industry figures and companies. The archive has not verified the substance of that item, so it is noted here only as a dated press mention, not a settled fact. A 1997 EQ piece (March 1997, p.42) is studio-session reportage that happens to sit in the same corpus, and it says nothing about the company. Later EQ pages from December 2010 (p.36, p.38, p.67) carry Moog Music Inc. copyright lines on Slim Phatty graphics and sample listings. They show only that the name persisted on documentation long after the Buffalo-era manuals.
Collectors hunting a specific instrument should start from the model pages, not this one. The brand catalog covers the designs the archive has actually documented: the Minimoog Model D, the Polymoog, the Multimoog, the Prodigy, the Taurus, the Memorymoog, the Micromoog, the Minitmoog, the Moogerfooger line, the modular systems, and the later Voyager and Sub families. Each of those carries its own verified specs, years and market notes. This entry carries none of that, because none of it belongs to a company name.
If you hold primary documentation on the corporate history rather than a single instrument, the archive wants to see it. That means incorporation papers, a dated price list, a dealer bulletin, or an owner's manual cover page with a street address. Until then this page stays short, and the Model 343 A and Prodigy service manuals remain the best evidence in hand for what the Buffalo operation looked like on paper.
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